Farm and Garden
There cannot be a thoroughly good farm unless there is a good water supply. If your farm is wanting in this, space no effort to correct it…
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Farming & the land, 1894
289 stories in New England's papers · page 4 of 15
The Future of Merino Sheep
BREEDERS interested in merino sheep can read with advantage the following remarks by Mr. S. B. Lusk, President of the New York State Merino Sheepbreeder's Association, delivered at the an…
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EXTRACT from a paper red by Mr. W. H. Tivy, at a meeting of the Missouri Dairymen's Association :-- The first important step in that line is to make…
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Could the Western farmer be suddenly' transferred from America to Bulgaria' without the intervening gradual changed which come by the way in travelling, he…
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Ducks are somewhat hardier and much easier to raise than chickens, and usually pay well. It costs less to run an incubator than to…
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LONDON, April 6.—Best factory made Australian and New Zealand batter it now quoted at 90s. per cwt…
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ON the 20th January wheat was quoted in the London market at 26s per quarter, and experienced judges are of opinion that if quotations went down to 25s the lowest price would be…
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No man was ever a poorer former because he possessed a liberal education. If you want to make your boy a really good farmer, better if possible than his father,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Very Latest. Sydney, Monday Night. Sheep and Cattle Markets
11,000 sheep were penned, and the market was much better; best wethers are worth 7s. 5d., others from 3s. 1750 cattle were yarded, but owing to the heavy supply…
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THE Wanganui CHRONICLE contains a report of a lecture by Mr. Robertson on worms in sheep, in which he said: Diffrent kinds of tape worm,…
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IN the dairy it will not do to stop short of the highest degrees of perfection that anybody has reached. Anything lower than that means inferior products and diminished…
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Australian factory butter by the R.M.S. Britannia has sold in London at 97s. per cwt. Australian wheat is quoted on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Traveller. Farming in the Fiji Islands. Herbert Stanly Renton
In fruiterers windows, everywhere in Australia and New Zealand, Fiji bananas are displayed temptingly at prices ranging from six pence to a shilling per dozen…
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If yon have only a limited amount to invest, and are about buying sheep it will be far better to bay a few good ones than many [?]ulls. It is the quality of your flock…
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MR. T. PASHLY, of Kaiopei. who has been interested in sheep-breeding in New Zealand for many decades, having Been in English papers that a " Flock Book" had been established by…
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THE Toowoomba Chronicle says : -- Cattle are virtually a drug on the market just now. Although some good prices are now and then realised in sale yards these are but isolated…
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THE horse is an almost unknown animal in the interior of China, and his place is taken by the domesticated buffalo or water ox. This is rather a…
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LONDON, May 1.—The May series of wool sales opened to-day, when Messrs. Charles Balme and Company and Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Company offered catalogues…
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SIR,--In these days of ruinous prices at which pastoralists are compelled, by force of circumstance?, to sacrifice--I cannot say sell--their stock, no person would be hold enough to question the…
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The appearance of the animals on a farm tells a good deal about the owner and his tastes. Thin cows with prominent ribs in winter or spring are not much of a…
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